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Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices

By Peter F. Drucker

Opening – Why we need Organization
Our society has become an organization society in an amazingly short period of time. Also, it has become plural. From production, medical care, annuity, education, science and the environment, the main problems were given in the hands of the organization, instead of people and families. When they noticed this difference, there isn’t much surprise of them saying ‘Organizations can die’. However, this response was incorrect, as totalitarianism is the only thing that can work other than organizations when it comes to independently work and to progress.
The society has neither will nor power to run something as an organization without money and service. Additionally, within the Luddites who are against organization, the only ones needing the organization are those people with educational background. It is only organization that can gain money from knowledge, progress and to help the society.
To create an organization and to gain high outcomes is the only way it can keep their freedom and dignity. It is the management that gives organization high outcomes, and it is the manager’s power to. A responsible and outcome-raising management is the only thing that can beat totalitarianism, and the only way to save us from it.
Most management books talks about management. They all look at management from the insides. Contrasting to that, this book will talk about the management’s mission, purposes and the job. Seek the management from the outside, look at the dimensions of the task, and seek what is expected in every dimension. Then, seek the organization and the job of, and for the management. Additionally, seek the top management and its strategy.
The current management needs to gain more outcomes than in the past. It is even required to gain profits and outcomes at possibly all the sections of the organization. It is more than having the organization to exist, or to prosper, but the outcomes here can change one world. That is because only the management that can gain outcomes will be able to beat the totalitarianism.
The motive and the purpose of this book is to prosper with today’s, and tomorrow’s management.
Spring, 1973, in Claremont, California
Peter F. Drucker